Throatwarbler posted:

You can carry a T72 in an Il-76, can't do that with T14, maybe you can with An-124, can the Russians build An-124s or is the entire production line in Ukraine?

Starsfan posted:

The worm as they say, is turning.

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4110473-is-zelenskyys-ungrateful-act-causing-him-to-lose-his-luster/

I can't imagine something like (opinion piece though it is) this being allowed in the mainstream media at any other point in the war. Seems like Zelenskyy's time in the sun is running out to me.

OctaMurk posted:

id make it cheap but try to sell it for alotta money

lumpentroll posted:

Starsfan posted:

The worm as they say, is turning.

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4110473-is-zelenskyys-ungrateful-act-causing-him-to-lose-his-luster/

I can't imagine something like (opinion piece though it is) this being allowed in the mainstream media at any other point in the war. Seems like Zelenskyy's time in the sun is running out to me.

quote:

In the interview, MacKinnon also denounced Abraham Lincoln for "wag[ing] an illegal war" against the Confederacy, which asserted had "seceded legally" and "peacefully."

Lostconfused posted:

From the government that brought you "pogroming Roma is just sparkling direct action"




https://kyivcity.gov.ua/news/miska_...FOfykJJ8dfd5L4Y posted:
Thus, according to the procedure, the organizers inform the city authorities and law enforcement authorities and law enforcement officers about a particular action. In particular, according to information from the Kyiv City State Administration, the march that took place in Kyiv on April 28 was declared not as an event dedicated to the creation of the SS Division "Galicia," but as a patriotic march of embroidered shirts

BadOptics posted:

https://www.salon.com/2014/10/28/wingnut_columnist_who_wants_south_to_secede_and_form_anti_gay_country_called_reagan_fired_from_newspaper/

A land of contrasts.

Truga posted:

embroidered shirts ftw

Frosted Flake posted:

Throatwarbler posted:

You can carry a T72 in an Il-76, can't do that with T14, maybe you can with An-124, can the Russians build An-124s or is the entire production line in Ukraine?

BadOptics posted:

Lol, I love to search the forums for "TANKIE" and man, some people really hate the erotic book covers gimmick.

Ytlaya posted:

lol really? Didn't expect that. Are they just mad that it's making light of something they view as Literally Modern Nazi Germany?

sum posted:

On that same topic, this is about the most pessimistic article on Ukraine I've seen printed in the British press, who are usually deliriously optimistic. It's impressive that after acknowledging how overwhelmingly materially disadvantaged Ukraine is the author still somehow manages to muster out an unenthusiastic "...and that's why we must redouble our efforts to aid Ukraine"

Regarde Aduck posted:

I think its more petty than that. Seemed like they just get really mad that they can't use the word in their thread. It got banned in their thread because they were literally using it as a slur against any Russian anywhere. Since then they're got real mad this thread can say it but seem confused about how it's used. One guy said it was proof this thread is full of alt right because we're using slurs.

Truga posted:

why do all the fash weirdos have shirt nicknames

Regarde Aduck posted:

I think its more petty than that. Seemed like they just get really mad that they can't use the word in their thread. It got banned in their thread because they were literally using it as a slur against any Russian anywhere. Since then they're got real mad this thread can say it but seem confused about how it's used. One guy said it was proof this thread is full of alt right because we're using slurs.

Starsfan posted:

purported evidence of Ukraine using cluster munitions on residential areas of Donetsk city:

https://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1682789691333185536

Claims have not been verified by Russian authorities, but just lol if Ukraine's promise to the US not to use the cluster munitions they were being sent on civilians didn't last a week.

Regarde Aduck posted:

From the 1990s, transgressive antiprofessionalism had become the opium of the vanguard corps of PMC elites. Angela Nagle’s book Kill All Normies: On Line Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right angered these cultural studies transgression worshippers. Like Sokal, Nagle is a proponent of the Old Left, but unlike Sokal, she was not a tenured professor in a STEM field. Nagle has been cancelled by scholars writing the kinds of things that Sokal parodied. Liberal academics could not bear to see their love of subcultural insider knowledge questioned or criticized, especially by an adjunct and junior scholar. Since the publication of Nagle’s book, which was critical of her work, Gabriella Coleman, holder of the Wolf Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University, has worked tirelessly to blacklist and deplatform the Irish scholar. Nagle, who worked for years as an adjunct and journalist in the para-academic world, has little institutional power or standing in comparison with Coleman, the prize-winning ethnographer of Anonymous. Nagle suggested that Coleman’s 2014 book Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy was one example of the feverish academic embrace of transgression and its antinormie animus. Nagle argues in passing that Coleman lost her distance to her ethnographic subjects of study—Internet provocateurs like / weev/, Andrew Aurenheimer, convicted and sentenced in 2012 of hacking AT&T. Coleman loves transgression, the kind parodied by Sokal, and her book is rife with gushing accounts of her relationships with online microcelebrities. Coleman is unfazed by the fact that /weev/ turned out to be an anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi webmaster of the far right website Daily Stormer. In contrast to Coleman, Nagle argued that the Left should be embracing the normative forces of class struggle, not the subcultural transgressions and exploits of people like Aurenheimer. Nagle believes in mass, working-class-based coalitions and movements, not subcultural fetish politics, which she finds undermines the forms of solidarity that are needed for the long struggles of the future. Parody, civil dissent, reasoned debate, contradiction, and polemics are useless, however, against people who see the world as a series of opportunities for transgressing boundaries and celebrating floating signifiers and Deleuzian lines of flight.

Ardennes posted:

The question is if it actually weighs more, it may not actually weight much more than a T-90m because its turret by being unmanned doesn't need to be protected in the same fashion. This allows them to redistribute that weight in other areas of the tank. In addition, the length of the gun, while it contributes to the size of the turret, does allow them significantly greater range than other guns of the same caliber.

You are right; it is physically tall because of its gun but weight is more tricky.

With its gun, it is probably more useful slightly behind the frontline to support other armored vehicles than it would be in the thick of combat, it is also why they are only building so many.

Frosted Flake posted:

Zeroisanumber posted:

I've never understood the whole Russian hate thing. Most Russians are nice people with a hosed up government, same as Americans.

The Oldest Man posted:

how does "unarmored turret" figure into the new era of everyone and their grandma having top attack weapons

BEAR GRYLLZ posted:

if they weren't disgusting orc pigs who loved war and deserved death they would have taken up arms against their government for this illegal invasion

what was i doing during the iraq war? look it was a different time and like, saddam was a bad guy? it's different

The Oldest Man posted:

how does "unarmored turret" figure into the new era of everyone and their grandma having top attack weapons

BEAR GRYLLZ posted:

if they weren't disgusting orc pigs who loved war and deserved death they would have taken up arms against their government for this illegal invasion

what was i doing during the iraq war? look it was a different time and like, saddam was a bad guy? it's different

Frosted Flake posted:

Yeah, Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde. I didn't realize it was obscure, I had a whole seminar on it. I realize it's not as popular as Harry Potter, but I thought it was better known.

I had another class on The Name of the Rose by Eco, and there was one I didn't take on Pillars of the Earth, though the book and boardgame are great. There are two Name of the Rose games too, the one that shares a title, and Mystery of the Abbey, which I think is a bit more fun and lighthearted.



If undergrad and high school were more like grad school I think people would be more willing to stick it out. I think I only really enjoyed my education starting then.

Regarde Aduck posted:

there's no way you can armour the turret enough to survive a dedicated top attack anti-tank weapon so the best you can do is make it unmanned and seal it off from the crew. The best armor for a tank remains "don't be seen" and if that fails "don't get hit".

Active protection might get good enough one day to make missiles useless but not quite yet.

Orange Devil posted:

The best defense since always has been to hit the other guy before he can hit you.

Thus leading to innovations such as "pointy stick", "slightly longer pointy stick", "throwing pointy stick" and "shooting pointy stick at other guy".



I mean the secret best defense has always been to forge bonds of friendship through mutual interdependence, cooperation and respect, but you know *gestures at everything*.

Zeroisanumber posted:

I've never understood the whole Russian hate thing. Most Russians are nice people with a hosed up government, same as Americans.